I have a debian package that I built that contains a tar ball of the files, a control file, and a postinst file. I am using some environment variables in the postinst script of the package. But When I ...

I am using chef's dpkg_package resource to install a deb package from a source file. My system creates test versions of the software all the time and I have cron job to run chef-solo to make sure I ...

I want to update a ubuntu box in an unsupervised way. If the update fails, I'll have to fly there to manually fix it :P so my question is:
If there is power outage in the middle of a kernel or user ...

I am trying to use debconf for installing a deb package. I want to make a new entry in the templates file when the installation is actually going on.
I am just trying to say that the entry I am going ...

I am trying to make multiple .deb's from a single source, but would like to have different maintainer scripts (pre/post inst/rm) scripts as well as different systemd unit files for each package. Is ...

So I am facing a very strange peculiarity. I am trying to run dpkg on a remote server via SSH. My code works perfectly if I click Run through Xcode, but if I click Build > Archive then Export as a Mac ...

I have a functional installation of mongo 2.6.6 running on my debian wheezy 7.7 server. I can run mongo and interact with the databases and collections within. It seems to operate without a problem. ...

I've a really strange behavior with a .deb package.
When I try to install using dpkg -i package.deb, I get this error:
iPadAir:/tmp root# dpkg -i packagename.deb
(Reading database ... 4239 files and ...

I have a vps with mysql and phpmyadmin on debian 7.
I have create a super user with remote access to mysql.
I have access to phpmyadmin with my-ip/phpmyadmin.
I want to completly remove phpmyadmin but ...

After downloading and installing a package in Ubuntu, how can I check where the library and header files were written to? I believe that this has something to do with the package's .pc file, but I do ...

I am working on Debian packaging source to install few files on user machine. There is common logic that is being used by debconf/config script and postinst script. So, I placed the common logic in a ...

I am trying to install mysql-server, mysql-client, apache2, and php5 on a ubuntu 12.04 server all offline (Yes, I have to do it offline). I have successfully installed mysql-server, mysql-client, and ...

I am writing here you because I am thinking about what strategy to follow when maintaining different python version for our workstations. So what I have is a local repo for Ubuntu 12.04 in which I put ...

I successfully created a package from the mongodb precompiled binaries. I would like to add a user to the mongodb directly after the installation. So I created the following post-installation script:
...

Good afternoon,
I am building a .deb package on a Voyage6.5.0 (Debian 5 based system) for Python2.6.5 (because the latest python available for that system is 2.5.2-3)
The steps to my build are shown ...

I would like to install psycopg for python on a server but I am having some version problem. Is there a way I can specify which version to use during installation?
Here is what I have
dpkg -l |grep ...

Hello I want to make a script that make a deb file and can be publicly released. The current code does make a deb, but its always 0 bytes
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
display dialog "Enter ...

I have created a .deb package using equivs-build command and providing necessary control, preinst, postinst, etc. I noticed that version can also be mentioned in control file. Now I want to create a ...

I'm a little stuck in a postinst file for Ubuntu.
The problem is when upgrading the package. I have some sqlite databases (marked as config files to save them from upgrades) in which I want to modify ...

I have an apt package that is compiled for Ubuntu 13.04 and want to install it on Ubuntu 14.04
The package in question depends on libcogl12 which is not available on Ubuntu 14.04 (replaced by newer ...